‘The Nvidia Way’ review: The hard work of tech mastery

Jensen Huang advocates ferociously hard work. New employees are told Nvidia's culture is “ultra-aggressive”. (Image: Wikipedia CC BY 2.0)

The Wall Street Journal

Sat, 21 Dec 2024

By Philip Delves BroughtonThe origin story of Nvidia has yet to attain the status of technology myth. It isn’t Bill Hewlett and David Packard in their garage in Palo Alto, California, or Bill Gates and Paul Allen raising hell with the Lakeside School programmers’ group. It is three men in a San Jose Denny’s in 1992 guzzling from a single bottomless cup of coffee and thinking of computer chips.But if Nvidia’s staggering ascent says anything, it is that mythical status is imminent. In January 2020, in the ea...

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